Ludwig Wiesinger
Eduard Ludwig Gotthilf Wiesinger (born May 25, 1859 in Bayreuth , † April 4, 1942 in Hamburg ) was a businessman and Senator from Hamburg.
Wiesinger was a grandson of Friedrich Heinrich Ranke , his father was professor of theology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1860 , so that Wiesinger grew up in Göttingen . He attended the Max-Planck-Gymnasium for a few years before beginning a four-year commercial apprenticeship in Göttingen from 1875. Wiesinger then worked in Hamburg in different industries for different companies, including a. for the Norddeutsche Bank , before entering the hard coal business in 1885 and becoming a general representative of the Britannia union , which operated several tunnels in northern Bohemia . Thanks to this successful activity, he was accepted as a partner in a coal trading company in 1888, which he owned in full from 1911. In 1896 Wiesinger founded the Association of Altona Combustion Merchants and was later active in the Central Association of Coal Merchants until the 1930s.
In 1910 Wiesinger was elected to the Hamburg parliament by the notables , to which he belonged until December 1917. In the citizenry he joined the parliamentary group of the left . Wiesinger was elected to the finance deputation by the citizens and belonged to the war supply office during the First World War . As part of these activities, he had a lot to do with different senators. It was therefore logical that the Senate proposed him as a candidate and Wiesinger was elected to the Hamburg Senate on December 7, 1917 for the deceased Senator Johann Refardt . After Anton Rodatz, Wiesinger was only the second member of the Senate to come from the Left Party. He was a member of the Senate until his resignation on March 27, 1919.
From 1920 Wiesinger was chairman of the board of directors of the Hamburger Sparkasse from 1827 he was also a member of the board of directors of Hamburgische Elektrisitätswerke from 1914 to 1930 . Wiesinger was also chairman of the state committee for war invalids of a forerunner organization of the Reichsbund .
Wiesinger was married to Johanne Wilhelmine Illemann since 1888.
literature
- Hamburger Nachrichten, No. 236 of May 24, 1929
Web links
- Newspaper article about Ludwig Wiesinger in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Hamburg 5, No. 238/1942
- ↑ The faction of the left in the citizenship represented the craftsmen and smaller landowners, more details can be found in the article on the citizenship.
- ^ Adolf Buehl : From the old council chamber: Memories 1905-1918, Hamburg 1973, p. 21
- ^ Marriage register StA Hardegsen, No. 4/1888
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiesinger, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wiesinger, Eduard Ludwig Gotthilf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Hamburg Senator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1942 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |